Outfacing Quotes & Sayings

I've never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us. — Duane Hewitt

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it. — Carol Berg

I don't want other companies, I want this one,' insisted Seidelmeyer. 'I want all of their revenue and none of their people.'
'None of their people?' echoed Feretti. 'That's good margin. — Ken Goldstein

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed. — Walter Kohn

Every dandelion blown,
each 'Star light, star bright
The first star I see tonight'.
My wish is always the same.
Every fallen eyelash
and first firefly of the summer
The dream remains — Jacqueline Woodson

The core concept in Griffin's writings about racism - that members of dominant groups tend to view minorities, because they seem different in some extrinsic way, as intrinsically other, and "as merely underdeveloped versions of their own imprisoning culture" - was intuited in Black Like Me and articulated in a seminal essay, "The Intrinsic Other — John Howard Griffin

Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Real courage comes from outfacing the danger. — Veronica Heley

It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief? — Nuruddin Farah

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly Grand Street in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to be a story that discerning Frenchmen preferred to read Marcel Proust in English on the grounds that the prose of A la recherche du temps perdu was deeply un-French and heavily influenced by English writers such as Ruskin.' I cling to this even though Kilmartin thought it to be ridiculous Parisian snobbery; I shall never be able to read Proust in French, and one's opportunities for outfacing Gallic self-regard are relatively scarce. — Christopher Hitchens

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies? — Manal Al-Sharif

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler